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>It's why have they all decided to act right now They might have decided in many cases to act now, but with this specific case it seems to have been 11 days ag
by Thorrez 6y ago
>It's why have they all decided to act right now
They might have decided in many cases to act now, but with this specific case it seems to have been 11 days ago:
>Facebook suspended his group on Jan. 7
- ttt0 6y agoI think this is a mistake. They already issued one correction from "20-member" to "20,000-member". The author seems to have serious problems with numbers. Look at the first paragraph: > Facebook Inc took down a popular Wall Street discussion group, Robinhood Stock Traders, in a move that its founder on Thursday described as backlash for conversations buoying shares of GameStop Corp and other companies this week. First, a typo, "buoying". But it also says "this week". So what they meant is probably Jan. 27.
- jmalicki 6y agoNot a typo, a totally appropriate word. The conversations buoyed the shares, they did not buy them. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/buoying https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/buoyi...
- ttt0 6y agoThanks, English is not my native language.
- Thorrez 6y agoHmm, good point, I didn't think of that possibility. It's a very confusing article, as I mentioned in a different comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954579
- ttt0 6y agoThat's what got me confused too, the entire article makes zero sense if it was on Jan 7. Good catch though, I would have never noticed that.